Since Reagan was the Greatest President ever to live, does that make all subsequent Presidents substandard ???

Question

ie Bush Clinton Bush all failures.

Greatest ever is based on a YA politics survey of paid Republican activists. AKA the absolute truth

Hubert D

"considered by you"

No No No... I'm whirling the Republicans on YA

Answer 1

This is what you get from a one sided view. A one sided answer.

parties are the plagues of politics.

Answer 2

So how is it that your god Reagan is considered by you to be the greatest President ever to live? I don't suppose Lincoln, the Roosevelts, Washington or Jefferson were very good then either were they? I believe you are a prime example of why we need stronger emphesis on history in our schools. While I will agree that George W. Bush is a failure his father and Clinton were reasonably good Presidents.

Note where your god Reagan is on this survey of political EXPERTS: (note who is 17th meaning 16 are better)

President Years in Office Political party Average ranking

1 Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 Republican 1.58
2 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 Democrat 2
3 George Washington 1789–1797 Unaffiliated (Pro-Administration) 2.83
4 Thomas Jefferson 1801–1809 Democratic-Republican 4.42
5 Theodore Roosevelt 1901–1909 Republican 4.83
6 Woodrow Wilson 1913–1921 Democrat 6.58
7 Harry S. Truman 1945–1953 Democrat 7.18
8 Andrew Jackson 1829–1837 Democrat 9
9 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–1961 Republican 10.73
10 James K. Polk 1845–1849 Democrat 11.08
11 John Adams 1797–1801 Federalist 12.17
12 John F. Kennedy 1961–1963 Democrat 12.5
13 James Madison 1809–1817 Democratic-Republican 12.67
14 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–1969 Democrat 13.6
15 James Monroe 1817–1825 Democratic-Republican 14.08
16 Grover Cleveland 1885–1889 and 1893-1897 Democrat 15
17 Ronald Reagan 1981–1989 Republican 15.63
18 William McKinley 1897–1901 Republican 16.33
19 John Quincy Adams 1825–1829 Democratic-Republican 16.9
20 William Howard Taft 1909–1913 Republican 19.67
21 Bill Clinton 1993–2001 Democrat 20.67
22 George W. Bush 2001– Republican 21
23 Martin Van Buren 1837–1841 Democrat 21.58
24 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877–1881 Republican 22
25 George H. W. Bush 1989–1993 Republican 22.14
26 Chester A. Arthur 1881–1885 Republican 25.5
27 Herbert Hoover 1929–1933 Republican 26.17
28 (tie) Jimmy Carter 1977–1981 Democrat 26.3
28 (tie) Gerald Ford 1974–1977 Republican 26.3
30 Benjamin Harrison 1889–1893 Republican 27.33
31 Calvin Coolidge 1923–1929 Republican 28.42
32 Richard Nixon 1969–1974 Republican 29.2
33 James A. Garfield 1881 Republican 29.57
34 Zachary Taylor 1849–1850 Whig 29.58
35 John Tyler 1841–1845 Whig/none 31.75
36 Millard Fillmore 1850–1853 Whig 32.41
37 Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 Republican 33.42
38 William Henry Harrison 1841 Whig 33.57
39 Andrew Johnson 1865–1869 National Union 34.67
40 Franklin Pierce 1853–1857 Democrat 34.92
41 James Buchanan 1857–1861 Democrat 36.58
42 Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 Republican 37.19

Answer 3

I loved President Reagan, Read some of his quotes;


'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'



- Ronald Reagan





'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'



- Ronald Reagan





'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.'



- Ronald Reagan





'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'



- Ronald Reagan





'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.'



- Ronald Reagan





'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.'



- Ronald Reagan





'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.'



- Ronald Reagan





'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.'



- Ronald Reagan



'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.'



- Ronald Reagan



'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.'



- Ronald Reagan



'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.'



- Ronald Reagan



'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'



- Ronald Reagan





'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'



- Ronald Reagan

Answer 4

Reagan was the Greatest President ever .....

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Answer 5

Don't agree with you about Reagan. There were much better Presidents such as Washington, Lincoln, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy as examples that were better and made a difference.

Answer 6

I wouldnt say failures, but you look at what regan did. He totally reformed the US economy, taking soaring inflation to a bareable level. He built up the US military to be the most advanced in the world. He carried a hard nosed attitute to get what was good for America done and quickly. He single handedly brought down the Soviet Union without a shot fired.

What did Clinton do to equal even one of the previous points?

What has Bush done to equal one of the previous points?

Answer: nothing, they are not even close.

Answer 7

Being Reagan signed the amnesty of 1986, and for many more reasons, Reagan is not only not the great president but way far down the list

Answer 8

Uh, which idiot thinks Reagan was the best President ever.
He could hardly string two sentences together without stumbling over his own words.
An embarrassment!
Have a nice day.

Answer 9

Just because one person or thing is the greatest it doesn't mean that the rest were failures or substandard.

The world is in shades of gray, not black and white.

Answer 10

Better than Washington?